Monday, 19 March 2012

Next weekend (24-25 March), the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) will open 670 heritage sites in Italy; this is a great occasion to visit archaeological sites which are usually closed to the public.
A complete list of heritage sites open in Campania for this occasion is available here; among those, the archaeological sites in the province of Napoli are:

If you are planning to visit the two archaeological sites on the northern slope of Vesuvius, please visit this webpage for detailed directions and the Apolline Project website for additional information and photos of the archaeological sites.

At the archaeological site in Pollena Trocchia, the tour will be led by archaeologists and volcanologists who excavated it; I am also organising special tours led by schoolchildren and areas of the site where restorers, bone specialists, etc. show their modus operandi. Furthermore, the Associazione Culturart Onlus will let visitors create their own pots, in late antique fashion! If you come to Pollena Trocchia, please consider visiting also the primeval small volcanic cones area and the Villa Cappelli (with a fake Roman ruin built by a Neapolitan nobleman two centuries ago); both sites are also included among the sites open for this special occasion.